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Well I got the Puppy Linux working on my old Aptiva AMD 2 machine. It works great. I was really impressed how fast it works. I need to take it home over the weekend and try it on the internet (don't have network access at school for personal machines). Moodle seems to be doing well. A few teachers are digging in but not as eagerly as I'd like. One of the instructional coaches is doing great at loading her site with all kinds of links to state standards stuff. I hoped she would.

Friday, I read Steve Hargadon's Blog about using Puppy Linux on a computer at home. So the wheels started spinning. I'm a Mac user but have an old Aptiva in the basement. So my current project is to see how Puppy works on the old machine. Lot's of families in my district can't afford computers and it's been my dream to see usable machines in their hands. So I'm trying this out. Wish me luck.

Mid-January this year I left my position as an elementary principal to become a technology instructional coach for the district. At first I had to go through a bit of culture shock, not dealing with angry parents, not dealing with angry teachers, not seeing angry students, not dealing with angry central office administrators, etc. to working in a very small department on the backside of the district. My e-mails went from 100 a day to less than 10 and my face to face traffic was even less. I was… Continue